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I/ezfzfemPatent No. 77,402, aceted'flprz'l 28, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS POR DISGHARGING `BIliGII-WA'-I'IIR.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY.- CONCERNA:

Be it known that I, PHINEAS P ARDEE, of New-Haven, inthe county lof New Haven, and State of `Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Apparatus for Disch'arging Bilge-*Wateryand I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, andthe lettersoi' 'reference marked thereon, to be a vl'uli, clear, and exactV description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specifica-tion, and represents a sectional view ofthe stern of' a boat, and my:discharging-apparatus attached as in operation. A

This invention. is designed to discharge the bilgelwater from vessels without the aid of machineryor labor, simply employing themovementmfthe vesselthro'ugh the'water, or,il` the vesselbestationary, the tide or current passing the vessel. I v

In order to ythe clear understanding of my invention, I will proceed te describe the same, as illustratedy in the-'accompanying c lrawlng.` 'I Y A represents theheld'of avess'el sailing in the direction denoted bythe arrow. When the water hasleaked intov the hold, a llerible tube, B, is passed downiinte the hold, so as'to be held near the-lowest poixit, a'nd maybe there connected toa strainer or o ther'devie'e tov'prevent the entrance of anythingwhich would obstruct .the tube. Passing up,-the Atube is dropped over the stern, having its V,end provided with an open, funnelshaped mouth, C,' and n-t some point on the tube IvarrrangeA an opening, D, thi'ough' which airv may be exhausted` sov as to'ill the tube with water, and when se filled the opening D is closcdethen, the vesselmo'ri'ng, theopen' mouth, C, causes a vacuum 'to foim iu its reur,aml, to lill this vacuum, the water passesffromthe hold/out throughl the tube, and will sovcontinue to run until all thewa'ter-be discharged. Y

If the vessel be at anchor in the river or in tide-water, the-current created by the passing .water is suilicient to draw the bilge--water from the vessel in like manner as when the vessel is moving.- i l The mouth C should be attached to the vessel so as not to depend upon the tubefor its support. It is not necessary in all casesjthat the plug D be arranged so as to cxhanst'ltheair therethrough, as the movement `o'i th/e vessel or water would soon draw the air from the tubefOllQwed by the Water from' the hold; but` mechani' cally exhaustingV the airwill facilitate the operation. Thus, by an extremely simple apparatus, and ata trilling cost, and without the employment. oi' `manual labor or meohanicalmeans, the hold ol the vessel maybe emptied..

It the leak be great,sevcial tubes, with their respective mouths, maybe arranged in like manner.

'I doknot broadly claim Ithe Afixing or attachment .of a funnel-shaped draught-apparatus to a vessel, as such. I amaware, is not new. I

' Having thus fully described my inventionLwhat I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I I The combination of the flexible tube B, and itslopenmouth, C, together constituting aportable apparatus, andconstructed and arranged so that thesaid tube will lead fromthe hold olf' the vessel out through.` any convenient opening, orV over anyconvenient'point above the water-line to the said open mouth, so as to suspndthe saidvmouth from Athe vessel, and so that the vessel passing through the water, or the water passing the `vessel,

will create a draught through .the said mouth'and tube, and by such glrau'ght cause the water in the'hold to pass i through thefsaid tube and out at the said'mouth, all 'as herein set forth and described,

' PHINEAS PARDEE.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITs, i J. H. SHUMWAY. 

